May be this will help somebody. I decided to try the Vista 64 bits drivers for my HP Laserjet 3550N on my Windows 7 and it works without a glitch ! Why is HP announcing this as not supported. Again mysterious.
Next I will try to get Checkpoint Securemote at work...
Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Windows 7
I re-installed again the new Vaio. This time with Windows Vista Ultimate. The install is very smooth and quick. Of course I lost the pre-installed application given with Vista. The most annoying being the CD burner. Why is this not bundled in a product called 'Ultimate' is a mystery.
The net result of installing a 64 bits OS is that I have now 2GB free on 4GB. So be happy that the half RAM of your new still idle, unused computer is free...
I must say that I was a bit confused about Microsoft OS naming. 95,XP,2000.. Vista and now 7...
May be, because, ideally you should have 7GB of RAM to get 4 free... or may be because I will have to wait 7 months to get drivers for my HP3550.
I must admit this HP printer was a bad choice, not because it is a bad printer but because some processing is off loaded to the host driver which is then more complicated and basically available much after anything... on board PCL and Postcript printers are much better supported. One remark, it now prints remarkably well from Linux.
Another point: 7 seems to go on the hard disk for no reason every 20 seconds...strange...
So getting the right OS is still not easy. I prefer Windows to get Office - more used but also much more useful than Open-Office. It is good to remind that the common cut & paste is in most case not working between Linux apps.
I like Linux for the OpenERP and development in general. Vista is crap in average, XP becomes outdated and the XP64 bits support is problematic (drivers, apps) ,Windows 7 lacks some drivers.
Using VMWARE is of course an alternative. Although it adds complexity on everything (cut & paste works even less in this case). My idea was to use Windows as a host for my VM. The reason was that I expected to carry this Vaio much more than the previous HP to replace my classical notebook. So the starting time of a session with Office is critical.
Summary for this sunny Sunday: getting it all at work is still not easy !
The net result of installing a 64 bits OS is that I have now 2GB free on 4GB. So be happy that the half RAM of your new still idle, unused computer is free...
I must say that I was a bit confused about Microsoft OS naming. 95,XP,2000.. Vista and now 7...
May be, because, ideally you should have 7GB of RAM to get 4 free... or may be because I will have to wait 7 months to get drivers for my HP3550.
I must admit this HP printer was a bad choice, not because it is a bad printer but because some processing is off loaded to the host driver which is then more complicated and basically available much after anything... on board PCL and Postcript printers are much better supported. One remark, it now prints remarkably well from Linux.
Another point: 7 seems to go on the hard disk for no reason every 20 seconds...strange...
So getting the right OS is still not easy. I prefer Windows to get Office - more used but also much more useful than Open-Office. It is good to remind that the common cut & paste is in most case not working between Linux apps.
I like Linux for the OpenERP and development in general. Vista is crap in average, XP becomes outdated and the XP64 bits support is problematic (drivers, apps) ,Windows 7 lacks some drivers.
Using VMWARE is of course an alternative. Although it adds complexity on everything (cut & paste works even less in this case). My idea was to use Windows as a host for my VM. The reason was that I expected to carry this Vaio much more than the previous HP to replace my classical notebook. So the starting time of a session with Office is critical.
Summary for this sunny Sunday: getting it all at work is still not easy !
Friday, September 25, 2009
Printing the hardware config - Saved by MSINFO32
Just before scrapping Vista, I wanted to get a dump of the hardware installed just to be sure to be able to find the right drivers etc in case of troubles.
Unfortunately the control panel does not help you doing that.
Thanks to google I found back a utility I haven't use since years - MSINFO32.
Unfortunately the control panel does not help you doing that.
Thanks to google I found back a utility I haven't use since years - MSINFO32.
Windows VISTA...
On my new Vaio, I got 4GB of RAM. Here are the figures just after having produced the recovery disk...
Total memory is 3GB (because it is a 32 bits OS). Cached is reported at 1950 MB! And free is reported to 0. The graph for memory shows 1,4 GB.
I don't understand these figures and not matching figure but what I see is that is already consuming everything... That could be a sign of optimization whenI I am using it, but here I have a serious doubt because nothing is installed and running.
Second, I continue to see the hard disk light blinking... for doing what?
So my plan is to get out of Vista on this one too. As a MS partner I have access top the early release of Windows 7. I think this is an opportunity to try it out...
Total memory is 3GB (because it is a 32 bits OS). Cached is reported at 1950 MB! And free is reported to 0. The graph for memory shows 1,4 GB.
I don't understand these figures and not matching figure but what I see is that is already consuming everything... That could be a sign of optimization whenI I am using it, but here I have a serious doubt because nothing is installed and running.
Second, I continue to see the hard disk light blinking... for doing what?
So my plan is to get out of Vista on this one too. As a MS partner I have access top the early release of Windows 7. I think this is an opportunity to try it out...
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